"Rochford was an interesting individual. He was a musician who loved the theatre and counted the actor David Garrick and the playwright Beaumarchais…"
"The expansion and then fragmentation of the Habsburg domains during the sixteenth century presented English diplomacy with its greatest challenges…"
Galeの一次資料データベースについて海外の専門家が書き下ろした解説文の和訳や、日本支社の社員が解説したエッセイを掲載します。
"While many historians have devoted themselves to examining the dynamics of fascist movements and regimes, the topic of ‘anti-fascism’ has traditionally…"
"In 1872 the Reverend J. S. Brewer, classical scholar and editor of the great series of Letters and Papers of the reign of King Henry VIII, completed his…"
Between 1770 and 1830, crucial changes in penal law, including the increasing professionalization of law enforcement, and the decline in popularity of some of the traditional genres in the popular literature of crime, meant that crime content in newspapers was expanded and re-organised.
アメリカ古書協会の所蔵する女性著者の作品5,900点以上を収録するコレクションはいかに選定され、どのような資料を含み、なぜ重要なのか。同協会の学芸員が解説します。
大英図書館の誇る17-18世紀イギリス新聞のバーニー・コレクションについて、その歴史・構成・内容などを同館のキュレーターが豊富な具体例を交えつつ解説します。
"In nineteenth-century journalism there was a fine line between fact and fiction. Although the ability to supply up-to-date and serious news was central to…"
"Irish loyalty to the Stuarts first manifested itself in the immediate aftermath of James VI and I's succession to the English throne and Irish crown in 1603…"
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an agitator and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and an official of the Communist Party (CP). In an era when street life and mass strikes had a direct impact on ordinary people, Flynn’s notoriety was akin to that accorded to media stars today. The Rebel Girl, as she was called, led immigrant workers in major strikes in Lawrence, Massachusetts and Paterson and Passaic, New Jersey.
"State Papers Foreign offer much for an understanding of the development of the German states in this period. The key German states for scrutiny were…"
The monarchs of the Tudor dynasty occupy a unique place within the national memory. …Henry VIII and Elizabeth I are among England’s most recognisable rulers, thanks to splendid portraits painted in their own lifetimes: the Tudors were gifted in the art of self-promotion.
"Digitised newspapers have become vital tools for historians. The availability of searchable online journalism, stretching back centuries…"
For the whole of its publishing history, Punch was consistently fascinated with developments in flight and.... Punch's first significant engagement with aeronautics occurs in 1843 (two years after the magazine's founding), in response to William Henson's proposed Aerial Steam Carriage.
"The American Revolution was a civil war in every sense of the word, a fratricidal conflict that divided men and women throughout the Empire..."
The Daily Mirror has a good claim to be Britain’s most successful and influential newspaper. During its heyday, in the middle decades of the twentieth century, it offered a tremendously powerful, if stylised, expression of left-of-centre working-class popular culture in a country dominated by conservative, middle-class voices. At its peak, in 1967, it reached the unprecedented daily circulation of 5.25 million copies, a figure that none of its rivals has come close to matching, or likely ever will.
"A peculiarity of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was that it was one of the very few communist parties that was never proscribed by the state…"
"In the twenty-first century government has an almost obsessive interest in mapping social change. The seventeenth-century state was rarely interested in…"
"Most of the government archives offices were united into one Public Record Office in 1838, not to be joined by the State Paper Office itself until 1852. However…"